en EE ey a = : i 2. eae / 4 Het WT ie ay Ape ay muy ! 1 Whi it Herons ee \ { tha dus Pele noe * Cin Lily, if ia om is : iy by rhe WEL ACME UDELL YEE =a 3 Wives Pwr tres Pe dludtrcesce yf 4 ie tna 1) ' j PAOLA TAR ARAL LY IPs tase tid LEM EL GGT TNA ff 48 De taN M4 HH PRICE TEN Winch pinned faith on Liberal alliance, |not popular action VICTORIA, B.C. The resignation of Harold Winch as CCF leader is the logi- Cal, if unexpected, outcome of € complete failure of his whole Sessional strategy. From the be- Sinning of the’ eight-week ses- Sion the CCF leader placed his rath, not in a popular. campaign €d by the CCF House group to Compel the government to act °n important issues, but in an attempt to build a working alli- nce. in the legislature with the “iberal group, which in any diy- Slon on party lines held the bal- nce of power. When, after the defeat of the €nnett government, the Liber- als refused to give any commit- Ment of support and Lieutenant- Overnor Clarence Wallace used ack of such support as an ex- ee for not calling on Winch, became clear on what insecure foundation the CCF leader’s Opes were built. In the meantime the CCF had Cop’s libel suit against PT comes up. May 11 reports published in the Pacific Tribune portrayed him as “a brutal, sadistic, undesirable, and racially prejudiced person, who especially hated Negroes and who used foul, brutal, sadistic tactics to brow beat, bully and punish Negroes without just cause.” thrown away its chance to rally a great mass movement to force action on the ICA Act, Work- men’s Compensation, trade and other vital questions. On the Throne Speech debate, for in- stance, the CCF failed .to move any amendment regretting the government’s failure to initiate action on lorfg overdue reforms. The CCF even allowed Bennett to force it into voting for the Throne Speech—a tacit endorse- ment of government policy. During the session, it was ap- parent that some CCF members were not too happy about this strategy, and were prepared to fight, whenever the opportunity presented itself. Some of the CCF’s most telling points were scored when Winch was forced to absent himself from the House because of ill health. A fighting CCF forced major admissions Continued on page 6 See WINCH C The libel action brought by youstable Dan Brown, Vancou- ee. City Police ‘ Department, ot the Pacific Tribune for S stories on the Clarence Cle- €ns case, will be heard in the Upreme Court of British Colum- 4 at the Court House here May » at 11 am. Brown is claiming that the i g S $s Sovie e : 4s ~~Viets cut prices again Sin Soviet consumers received another price cut this week — the sixt ee ce rationing was abolished. Reductions in the ods ranged from five to fifteen percent. In contra aes constantly lag behind rising prices, Soviet living creased wages and reduced prices add to the peop h such cut prices of food and many consumer st to the capitalist countries, where standards are constantly rising le’s purchasing power. Vancouver, British Columbia, April 3, 1953 URGE CANADA ACT TO BRING CEASE-FIRE IN KORE “The government of Canada should at once take action to hasten a cease-fire in Korea and bring Canada’s forces back home by accepting the new proposal of Premier Chou Enlai of People’s Republic of China,” Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, declared in Toronto this week. (On Monday Premier Chou Enlai, in a broadcast from Peking, made a new proposal to end the Korean war, in which he stated that all prisoners who want to return should be sent home, and others would be turned over to a neutral state to have their future justly settled. (Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov pledged the USSR’s support for Premier Chou Envlai’s plan; the Soviet Union and India sought to speed the Korean debate n the United Nations; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said the proposals “seem to offer a new hope” of peace.) “Any haggling about these new and clear cut proposals such as the U.S. reactionaries are already engaged in, should be condemned as an attempt to continue the Korean war for the benefit of the war profiteers who are coining rich profits out of the blood of people,” Buck continued. “Canadians condemn the war in Korea. The government of Canada and Lester B. Pearson, who is president of the UN General ‘Assembly, must listen to the demand of the people. “Prime Minister St. Laurent and Pearson must immediately press for a Continued on back page — See PEACE as related in evidence at the coroner’s inquest